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Bits & Pieces. For more than a decade it was an informal evening haunt of lecturers and avid students. They might study bits & pieces of history, psychoanalysis, drama, philosophy. They pooh-poohed examinations, degrees. It was all very earnest, and somewhat mixed up. New-Schoolers took the unacademic hash and let the credit...
...were at first mere random sounds. According to the "ding-dongists," man's first words were based on the characteristic sounds made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through...
Later Jimmy demanded and got more modern equipment and pictures through Australia. Grateful Australian airmen built him a hut, rebuilt it when a 500-lb. bomb took it apart (Jimmy was staying, at the moment, in a nearby slit trench named Pooh-Bah Palace). Australians and Americans have also built a chain of eight theaters which extend from Port Moresby to Milne Bay and deep into the jungle. The seats are smoothed logs nailed to stumps. The theater's acoustic walls are the jungle, which adds its own soundeffects and out of which appear like moths...
Next move will be for WLB to tell its troubles to the President, who may pen a "Dear Mr. Avery" letter. Chances were it would work. Though he pooh-poohed the validity of the powers that Franklin Roosevelt delegated to WLB, Mr. Avery also said: "... If the President of the United States . . . directs that Wards accept the Board's rulings ... we will respectfully obey...
President Brandt pooh-poohs the idea that liberal education will be a casualty of World War II, says confidently: "There will be no place in the world after the war for gentlemen in the old European sense of men trained merely in Greek and in Latin, but there will always be a place for the gentlemanly intellect...